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Jack’s Jumper (Sara Acton, Walker)  

Tuesday, 10 May 2022
Jack’s jumper is far too big for him (it once belonged to his beloved big brother Paul, who has grown up and is rarely home anymore) but that’s half the...

The Chronic Pain Couple (Karra Eloff, Exisle) 

Tuesday, 10 May 2022
Karra Eloff met her forever partner while she was struck with chronic pain. Since that time Eloff, a health professional, founded the Chronic Pain Couple, an organisation that delivers practical...

WA Premier’s Book Awards shortlists announced

Monday, 9 May 2022
The shortlists for the 2021 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted books in each category are: Premier’s Prize for an Emerging Writer ($15,000) Debesa (Cindy Solonec, Magabala)...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 9 May 2022
Books+Publishing is partnering with US trade news magazine Publishers Weekly to provide our subscribers with exclusive access to the weekly digital edition of PW magazine. View the edition here.

Otmar awarded 2022 Janet Mackenzie Medal

Friday, 6 May 2022
The Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) has announced Geelong-based writer, editor, researcher and trainer Renée Otmar as the winner of the the 2022 Janet Mackenzie Medal for services to editing....

Black Inc. sells ‘The Successor’ to North America 

Friday, 6 May 2022
Black Inc. has sold North American rights to The Successor: The high-stakes life of Lachlan Murdoch by Paddy Manning to Canadian nonfiction publisher Sutherland House after a two-way auction. Described...

Hachette acquires Rolfe YA graphic novel 

Thursday, 5 May 2022
Hachette Australia has acquired Get Your Story Straight, the debut YA graphic novel by Melbourne-based author and illustrator Briar Rolfe. The deal was brokered by Hachette head of children’s publishing Jeanmarie...

Rights round-up 

Wednesday, 4 May 2022
Sales Nonfiction Black Inc. has sold North American rights to The Shortest History of Japan (Lesley Downer) to The Experiment, and Romanian rights to Machines Behaving Badly: The morality of...

Pantera acquires Madigan book on stalking 

Wednesday, 4 May 2022
Pantera Press has acquired world rights for Obsession: The psychology of stalking by journalist Nicole Madigan, from Jeanne Ryckmans at Cameron's Management. In Obsession, Madigan tells the story of how...

Blue Hour (Sarah Schmidt, Hachette)

Tuesday, 3 May 2022
Sarah Schmidt’s second novel, following her award-winning debut See What I Have Done, is an intensely absorbing emotional journey through motherhood and trauma set against the turbulent 20th century. In...

Holy Woman (Louise Omer, Scribe) 

Tuesday, 3 May 2022
For Louise Omer, leaving a problematic marriage became leaving a faith. For her, the two went hand-in-hand, one a symbol of the other: the wife is subject to the husband,...

Tedeschi wins 2022 Calibre Essay Prize

Tuesday, 3 May 2022
Sydney-based classical musician Simon Tedeschi has won the 2022 Calibre Essay Prize for his essay ‘This Woman My Grandmother’. Tedeschi, whose debut Fugitive, will be published by Upswell this month,...

Read the latest Publishers Weekly 

Monday, 2 May 2022
Books+Publishing is partnering with US trade news magazine Publishers Weekly to provide our subscribers with exclusive access to the weekly digital edition of PW magazine. View the edition here.

Dorothy Hewett Award 2022 shortlist announced

Thursday, 28 April 2022
UWA Publishing (UWAP) has announced the shortlist for the 2022 Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript. The winner receives $10,000 prize money, as well as manuscript development and a...

My Spare Heart (Jared Thomas, A&U) 

Wednesday, 27 April 2022
There’s a lot to unpack in this YA novel, which covers issues including alcoholism, climate change, divorce and racism. At the centre of it all is 17-year-old Phoebe. She is...

Forty Nights (Pirooz Jafari, Ultimo) 

Wednesday, 27 April 2022
Forty Nights is the literary debut of photographer turned lawyer and writer Pirooz Jafari. The novel weaves together three separate timelines, moving between 1360s Sweden, 1980s Iran and present-day Australia—with...

Swimming Home (Judy Cotton, Black Inc.) 

Wednesday, 27 April 2022
Judy Cotton is an internationally celebrated visual artist who has work in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Australia. Her father, Sir Robert...

WAKE (Shelley Burr, Hachette) 

Wednesday, 27 April 2022
The question of what really happened to Evie McCreery has occupied amateur sleuths in online chat forums for years. But for Mina McCreery, ever since her twin sister was taken...

Molloy wins 2021 Anne Elder Award

Wednesday, 27 April 2022
Australian Poetry has announced Audrey Molloy's The Important Things (Gallery Press) as the winner of the 2021 Anne Elder Award for a first book of poetry. According to the 2021 prize...

 

 

 

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